Maharaja's song game turns into a plea for a day off
A lazy afternoon of salon sing-alongs ends with a word game, a sly request for leave, and a customer who thinks they groom dogs.
Film · 2024
Maharaja
மகாராஜா
A barber seeks vengeance after his home is burglarized, cryptically telling police his "Lakshmi" has been taken, leaving them uncertain if it's a person or object, jeer at his request until they learn what they're really looking for.
1h 06m
of essential Maharaja
25 moments
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Maharaja's Best Moments
Maharaja
Every Maharaja moment featuring Maharaja, in story order. Played by Vijay Sethupathi.
18 moments · 49 minby Favseen
Selvam's Best Moments
Maharaja
Every Maharaja moment featuring Selvam, in story order. Played by Anurag Kashyap.
9 moments · 23 minby Favseen
Inspector S. Varadharajan's Best Moments
Maharaja
Every Maharaja moment featuring Inspector S. Varadharajan, in story order. Played by Natarajan Subramaniam.
7 moments · 18 minby Favseen
Jothi's Best Moments
Maharaja
Every Maharaja moment featuring Jothi, in story order. Played by Sachana Namidass.
6 moments · 16 minby Favseen
Dhana's Best Moments
Maharaja
Every Maharaja moment featuring Dhana, in story order. Played by Manikandan.
4 moments · 10 minby Favseen
Nallasivam's Best Moments
Maharaja
Every Maharaja moment featuring Nallasivam, in story order. Played by Singampuli.
4 moments · 12 minby Favseen
Characters
All moments
25 in story order · 1h 06m
- 01
- 02
Jothi introduces her dad and Lakshmi, the family dustbin
Jothi narrates her life: sports over studies, a favourite P.E. teacher, and why an iron dustbin is treated as family.
- 03
Father-daughter montage: Maharaja's quiet everyday world
A song plays over mornings, salon regulars and Jothi bossing her dad around the kitchen.
- 04
Maharaja's iron grip makes a school owner apologize to Jothi
Wrongly accused and expelled, Jothi watches her father refuse to let go of the man until he says sorry to her.
- 05
A councillor storms a garage over his hero's sunglasses
A hothead beats up mechanics over the missing sunglasses his film hero gave him and threatens to burn the garage.
- 06
Maharaja reports a theft, and the stolen 'Lakshmi' is a dustbin
At the police station Maharaja describes three masked intruders; the officers learn the only thing taken is an iron dustbin.
- 07
Maharaja refuses to let go until police take his case
Thrown out for wasting time, Maharaja clings on with an unbreakable grip until a snake scatters the station.
- 08
The ear on the thief's back, and a moped thief named Police
Pressed for a clue, Maharaja recalls an ear protruding from one robber's back; a TVS 50 thief called Police asks questions.
- 09
Maharaja offers half a million to find a dustbin
After a standoff at gunpoint, Maharaja quietly offers the inspector a cash advance, and the price of the search changes.
- 10
Selvam's gang shows no mercy to a family they rob
Cornered in her home, a mother hands over everything she owns, but the masked robbers want more.
- 11
Captured in Dhana's den, Maharaja turns the tables
Dhana's drinking buddies prepare to maim the barber who tailed him, until Maharaja fights back and sends them away.
- 12
Dhana taunts Maharaja: one of the robbers is at the police station
Beaten and bound, Dhana refuses to name his partners but leaves Maharaja a riddle pointing to his local station.
- 13
The councillor finally remembers a name: Illayaraja
Hauled to the station, the sunglasses councillor stalls, then proudly recalls who came asking for the missing mechanic.
- 14
Selvam on why his daughter deserves everything
Late at night Selvam tells his wife that money will never come between his daughter and her dreams.
- 15
A barber overhears Selvam's call about the gang's robberies
While getting a trim before a birthday party, Selvam takes a call from Sabari about newspaper reports on their crimes.
- 16
Police storm Ammu's birthday and Selvam's wife disowns him
The arrest at the party turns deadly when Sabari pulls a gun, and Kokila learns what her husband really is.
- 17
Nobody wants to play the dustbin thief
The inspector phones every small-time crook he knows; none will confess to stealing a dustbin, until Nallasivam volunteers.
2m 56sInspector S. VaradharajanConstable KuzhandhaiveluNallasivam#police#casting a thief#phone calls - 18
Dhana and Selvam lie in wait as Maharaja tells his story
Inside the dark house Dhana grows restless while Maharaja's account at the station runs alongside, until Selvam calls them off.
- 19
Nallasivam's panicked call: we're caught
Away from the inspector, Nallasivam phones Selvam to warn him about the dustbin case and plans to slip away.
- 20
Maharaja comes home to his daughter's ordeal
The truth behind the night of the break-in, and Jothi's one request to her father: take her to the man responsible.
- 21
Nallasivam acts out the robbery for Maharaja
Coached by the police, Nallasivam stages the break-in room by room, unaware how closely Maharaja is listening.
- 22
The police turn on Nallasivam
Nallasivam threatens Maharaja in his own home; asked how to punish him, Maharaja forgives, and the inspector's question changes everything.
- 23
Selvam confronts Maharaja with fifteen years of hate
Beaten and cornered, Selvam spits out why he came for Maharaja's family and what he believes he took from him.
- 24
Jothi faces Selvam and spares him
Jothi insists on speaking to her attacker alone and tells him exactly what he is, then lets him live.
- 25
Selvam realizes Jothi is his lost daughter Ammu
Learning the child survived the accident, Selvam begs Maharaja for one word with the girl, and breaks down calling her name.